Barrett Breshears
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Logan, UT, United States
Toptal member since November 7, 2014
Barrett is a full-stack software developer with more than nine years of experience. He has focused on iOS mobile development over the past few years. Barrett's hard work and communication skills allow him to work in teams and with projects of all sizes.
Portfolio
Experience
- Xcode - 15 years
- iOS - 15 years
- Objective-C - 14 years
- Swift - 10 years
- React Native - 5 years
- SwiftUI - 5 years
- Sencha Touch - 4 years
- Flutter - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Bitbucket, GitHub, Jira, Parse, Xcode
The most amazing...
...thing I've coded is an interface allowing a Magento eCommerce site to communicate with a .NET Ecometry ERP system processing over $2 million in sales per year.
Work Experience
Senior Mobile Developer
Cached
- Gathered—drawing on my mobile development experience—requirements and created a focused backlog, leading to a streamlined project plan. My knowledge allowed me to accurately estimate the project length, ensuring a clear/efficient path to completion.
- Employed my leadership skills to seamlessly align mobile and back-end development, ensuring robust app functionality. Through effective communication and strategic oversight, I fostered a cohesive workflow, resulting in a high-performing, user-friendly app.
- Applied best practices to create a bug-free, easily maintainable, and upgradable app. Emphasizing clean code, thorough testing, and modular design, I ensured its long-term reliability and adaptability.
Senior iOS Developer
McGraw-Hill Education (Sharpen)
- Took designs and UI specs and turned them into pixel-perfect UI for native iOS app views.
- Helped plan and manage the team to hit product milestones and launches.
- Handled bugs and QA issues by implementing TDD to help make the app stable and usable.
Mobile and Full-stack Developer
Eth.co
- Helped plan, develop, and launch a Flutter app for the Play Store and App Store.
- Built and maintained a website using Preact and Tailwind.
- Integrated the sign-in with crypto wallets, allowing users to log in to the website.
- Found and fixed bugs and created a QA program to maintain the site.
Lead Flutter Developer
Fedi for pleroma
- Prototyped and developed a cross-platform app for a client that would allow them to use the ActivityPub protocol through a mobile app.
- Managed several remote developers who built bug-free features in a timely manner.
- Maintained and updated codebase by adding new features as well as fixing bugs.
Senior iOS Developer
Reel You
- Gathered project requirements from the lightning start.
- Put together a list of features that would be most important to launch MVP based on the client's requirements.
- Compiled backlog and provided the client with overall project estimation.
- Implemented plan and delivered the MVP on time and under budget.
Lead iOS Developer and Architect
MetaCardio
- Interviewed the client and was able to determine the project requirements.
- Determined which platform to target for the MVP based on the market fit.
- Created MVP requirements and determined project estimates and time.
- Constructed an iOS application from scratch, creating project architecture and development processes.
- Led the software development team and handled project management to finish the app within the given timeline.
Lead Mobile Developer
GigSmart
- Analyzed the existing codebase to estimate how long the project will take to get to the App Store.
- Resolved significant architectural issues that were causing major code instability.
- Fixed major core location issues that were causing battery performance issues.
- Integrated into an existing enterprise software team to help meet the deadline.
- Joined existing teams' daily standup meetings, performed just like an existing resource, and was up to speed writing code on the first day of the project.
Senior Mobile Engineer
Cooper Strategic
- Met daily with the team and clients to figure out requirements for a new project.
- Analyzed and understood key business requirements and turned those requirements into software features.
- Developed a plan for a minimum viable product based on feedback from clients and business requirements.
- Took the MVP and created a detailed app structure and flow for users to help create a road map of features and functionality.
- Took the MVP and roadmap, estimated the total cost of the project, and helped deliver user stories, project plans, and total project length and resources.
Senior iOS Engineer
Token Drop
- Created the base architecture for an app so we can easily expand features while maintaining code quality.
- Set up a build machine to automate builds and uploads to iTunes Connect.
- Wrote excellent code that is easily understandable and implemented analytics and push notifications.
- Created awesome animations to improve user interactions.
Senior iOS Engineer
Accent Technology
- Created an admin app that allowed updates to the end user's app for a custom experience depending on the client's needs.
- Used best practices to create a project that is easily maintainable and scalable.
- Integrated with the existing team to create high-quality apps.
- Migrated projects to support the latest version of Swift.
- Updated apps to support iOS 10.
- Integrated Salesforce into their existing iOS app to pull and then create visualizations.
- Utilized Salesforce mobile SDK to authenticate users.
- Used Salesforce Object Query Language to pull custom data set down for users to analyze sales process and performance.
Senior iOS Engineer
Zugata (via Toptal)
- Took the existing codebase and brought quality and standards up to an enterprise level.
- Worked with the existing team to integrate the API.
- Created new features that increased the user base.
- Created build automation tools that streamlined the deployment process.
- Created automated testing that reduced bugs.
Senior iOS Engineer
Emirates Group (via Toptal)
- Supported the existing iOS team in building out difficult features for the new Emirates app.
- Utilized SVGKit to create an interactive map that allows for offline location lookup.
- Created a custom scroll view that displays membership rewards with custom animation.
- Successfully integrated into a team eleven hours ahead of my current time zone.
- Worked with NSNotificationCenter to sync local core data with a server.
Senior iOS Developer
GLOBL (via Toptal)
- Updated the project to Swift 2.2.
- Fixed existing project crashes that were causing low app store ratings.
- Updated the app to iOS 9.3 and Swift 2.2.
- Utilized Twitter to find periscope URL and grab the stream URL. Once we had the periscope data, we were able to display live streams.
- Fixed performance issues.
Senior iOS Engineer
Poq Studio (via Toptal)
- Led a team in building a Swift-based iOS application.
- Built an API framework that communicates with the back-end server.
- Worked with an international team distributed in different time zones, maintaining excellent communication.
- Used unit tests and test-driven development to maintain bug-free code.
- Maintained high code standards with code review.
Senior iOS Engineer
Roomi (via Toptal)
- Rebuilt an existing app by creating a scalable foundation that allows for the app to be easily updatable.
- Integrated S3 image uploads for room listings.
- Created a live-time chat client.
- Led a team of developers and created best practices for development.
- Deployed a custom analytics solution to monitor user activity.
iOS Developer
Rocksauce Studios
- Developed mobile applications specializing in native and HTML5 app development.
- Troubleshot existing projects to fix major functionality and crash issues.
- Implemented crash and analytic SDKs, allowing app owners to see live app issues and usage.
- Utilized social frameworks to create apps that allowed users to share with their friends and grow the app's user base.
- Created apps using Parse, allowing for rapid app development.
Lead Front-end Developer
Seven Tablets
- Created Android and iOS apps using native code as well as HTML5, CSS3, and PhoneGap to deliver cross-platform apps depending on business requirements and budgets.
- Led a team of front-end developers.
- Created custom REST APIs using Ruby on Rails to communicate with iOS and Android apps.
- Helped deploy back-end systems on both Amazon EC2 and Heroku.
- Deployed a continuous integration process utilizing Git that allowed our team to rapidly develop applications.
- Helped create a code review process that improved code quality and app stability.
Lead Web Developer
VRP
- Created and maintained eCommerce websites for VRP.
- Built custom Magento plugins to allow for a single-page checkout process, converting 20% better than the usual four-page Magento checkout.
- Ran server support for Rackspace instances.
- Optimized sites for mobile experience.
- Successfully integrated a .NET ERP system to communicate with the PHP/Magento-based website, where orders had previously been entered manually.
Lead Mobile and Web Developer
Web Dev Designs
- Created the Motel 6 iPhone app.
- Built custom websites for companies using Umbraco and .NET.
- Programmed a custom back-end to communicate with Sabre's Travel API.
Experience
iOS Tech Editor at Raywenderlich.com
Accent Mobile 2.0
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/accent-mobile-2.0/id1159941447?mt=8Zugata
Motel 6 iPhone App
PRD Companion
Technical Training
Roomi
Poq Studio's House of Fraser App
TV Boss iOS and Android App
Sonar for Periscope
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Facebook iOS SDK, Parse SDK, CocoaPods, REST APIs, X (formerly Twitter) SDK, Foursquare API, MagicalRecord, Vue, React, Preact, jQuery, X (formerly Twitter) API, Salesforce API, PhoneGap NFC
Tools
Xcode, Sublime Text 2, Apache, Bitbucket, Jira, GitHub, Basecamp, Adobe Photoshop, Google Analytics, Crashlytics, Chrome Developer Tools, Auto Layout, CircleCI, Fastlane, Microsoft Visual Studio, Apple Push Notifications
Languages
Objective-C, SQL, JavaScript, HTML5, Swift, Dart, PHP, CSS3, Sass, SQL-99, Kotlin, C#, Ruby, Elixir
Frameworks
Core Location, Cocoa, JSON Framework for Objective-C, AFNetworking, Sencha Touch, Flutter, SwiftUI, CodeIgniter, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Compass, Nuxt.js, Cocoa Touch, PhoneGap, .NET, Core Data, ASP.NET, React Native
Paradigms
Mobile Development, Agile, Agile Software Development, Continuous Integration (CI), Pair Programming, Test-driven Development (TDD), Scrum, Model View ViewModel (MVVM)
Platforms
WordPress, iOS, Raspberry Pi, Parse, Magento, Firebase, Salesforce, Heroku, Amazon EC2, Umbraco, Linux, Android, Ubuntu
Storage
JSON, MySQLi, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Industry Expertise
Social Networking
Other
AVFoundation, Outsourcing, Cordova, App Store, Storyboarding, Size Classes, APIs, QA Testing
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